| Neogaeornis Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | †Vegaviiformes |
| Family: | †Vegaviidae |
| Genus: | †Neogaeornis Lambrecht 1929[1] |
| Species: | †N. wetzeli
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| †Neogaeornis wetzeli Lambrecht 1929
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Neogaeornis is a controversial prehistoric genus of diving bird. The single known species, Neogaeornis wetzeli, was described from fossils found in the Campanian to Maastrichtian Quiriquina Formation of Chile. It lived about 70-67 million years ago. It remains known from the single tarsometatarsus described in 1929 by Lambrecht, and today housed in the Paläontologisches Institut und Museum in Kiel, Germany.[2]